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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6873088" data-attributes="member: 23751">Nice, but not relevant to what I said.  The ability to reason is a broad category that includes every single thing you mentioned.  It's like the animal kingdom.  Flies and frogs are both a part of it, even if they are very different.  Intelligence is defined in part in 5e as the ability to reason.  It includes everything that is reason.  It doesn't mean that every high int person is going to be great at every single type.  This is modeled by skills.  If you take skills involving deductive reasoning and not ones involving philosophy, you will be great at one and mediocre at the other.Intelligence is the one stat for all of those.  Take the skills if you want to be better than mediocre with your 20 int.</blockquote>